Organize Whatcom branch of state college alumni Organization of a distinct Whatcom county branch of the Washington State College Alumni association as part of the three county branch of Whatcom Skagit and San Juan, was completed at last night's...

All Members of Last Legislature Are Reelected. Whatcom county will send a full republican delegation to the 1917 legislature, the same members who served in the 1915 session. Senator Ed Brown and Representatives C. H. Hoff, Tom Brown, F. Dyale...

County produces big goal supply. - Annual output large at Bellingham mines; furnished employment to many workmen. - Coal, mined in Whatcom County, is used to heat a large precentage of the homes of the county and to turn the wheels of many of its...

Efforts to reopen work on the Whatcom county airport project, a WPA strike center for more than a week, failed today when men intending to return to work were met by a strong picket line. The pickets also barricaded the airport site entrance and...

On the terms of the recent strike settlement, which call for negotiations on a basic wage scale for common labor, work was resumed today on all Works Progress administration projects in Whatcom county, including the airport site where grading of...

Whatcom coach leaves; goes into new workEarl Gibb, erstwhile Whatcom high school athletic coach and instructor in the science department will sever connections with the school April 30. He has accepted a position with the Wassermann...

Strike gold in whatcom. - Find on east creek thrills old-time prospectors. - A flurry among old-time prospectors has been created by reports of a "rich gold strike" on the headwaters of East creek in the eastern part of Whatcom county, according to...

Azurite mill runs November - Construction of the mill of the Azurite Gold company, in southeast Whatcom county, was started by the American Smelting and Refining company June 26, according to a report received by H. A. Pebles, vice president of the...

Spokane girl appointed demonstration agent. Washington State College, Pullman, Jan.-Miss Eleanore Davis, Spokane, a 1935 state college graduate, has been agent at large in the state agricultural extension service, Miss M. Elimina White, assistant...

Hutchinson and Sutton stage bitter fight for assessor. Senator Rockwell's bill to abolish the office of township assessor, affecting only Spokane and Whatcom counties, caused a long drawn out debate in the senate today, when the motion to...

Big gold mine to yield soon - mill of Azurite ready in month, estimate- lode opened on large scale - Equipment of the mill of the Azurite Gold company, in southeastern Whatcom county, may be completed October 15 and surely by November 15, according...

A WPA sit-down strike, called by the Workers' Alliance yesterday at the Whatcom county airport sit, spread to three other projects in the county today. About 400 out of the total of 1450 were idle and efforts were being made to close other projects.

Left-wing elements retained control of the Whatcom County Democratic organization today, when all officers were reelected without opposition. Elwood Marlow was chosen chairman, L. H. Darwin state committeeman and Birdie Parker state committeewoman.

Three hundred Works Progress workers started a sit down strike at the Whatcom County airport site shortly before noon today. A "flying squadron" from the Workers' alliance, a works progress administration organization.

A WPA sit-down strike, called by the Workers' alliance yesterday at the Whatcom county airport site, spread to three other projects in the county today. About 400 out of the total 1450 were idle, and efforts were being made to close other projects.

Azurite gold mill in action - The 100-ton mill of the Azurite Gold company in southeastern Whatcom county began the extraction of gold November 2, it is reported unofficially. More than two years of mine development and equipment preceded this...